The Young Voices for the Planetfilms have been screened widely including at the UN, the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen, conferences, schools, and science centers and museums such as the American Museum of Natural History City and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Tropical Audubon is using Olivia's Birds and the Oil Spill in their Florida Educator programs.
This film features four Florida middle school girls who save their school $53,000 in energy costs.
Non-profit organizations such as Audubon, Earth Force, and GLOBE use Cherry’s film Dreaming in Green as the inspirational piece in their Energy Audit workshops. Lynne's Young Voices for the Planet films are wonderful for integrating into STEM, ethics, citizen-science and civic engagement and can be viewed at Her books and films show kids can help create a better world. Lynne lectures widely-and passionately-about how children can make a difference.
How We Know What We Know about Our Changing Climate, co-authored with photojournalist Gary Braasch, won the AAAS/Subaru Award and 14 other awards. Many of her books have appeared on Reading Rainbow. She was a recipient of the Metcalf Fellowship and has received science writing fellowships from the Marine Biological Lab and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She has had artist-in-residencies at Princeton University, The Smithsonian Institution and Cornell University. Lynne earned an art degree at Tyler School of Art and a Masters in History at Yale University. Just as they pressured us to stop smoking and littering, wear seat belts, and recycle -creating change from the roots up, they can encourage us to take action to reduce the carbon footprint of homes, schools and communities." “These kids inspire us all to embrace the seriousness of climate change. “Messages of gloom and doom elicit reactions of fear and hopelessness but the eight Young Voices for the Planet films focus on empowerment,” says Cherry. Lynne is the producer and director of the Young Voices for the Planet movie series. Her best-selling books such as The Great Kapok Tree and A River Ran Wild teach children a respect for the earth, have sold over a million copies and are translated into many languages. She has written and/or illustrated over thirty award-winning books for children. Lynne Cherry is an author, illustrator, filmmaker and environmental lecturer.
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